Candle lamp



H. S. BRADY CANDLE LAMP May 13, 1941.

Filed Sept. 8, 1959 INVENTOR Patented May 13, 1941 CANDLE LAMP Hugh S. Brady, Greensburg, Pa., assignor to The Jeannette Glass Company, a corporation of 7 Pennsylvania Application September 8, 1939, Serial No. 293,965

4 Claims.

This invention relates to a candle lamp which may be made of any suitable material, but which desirably is made of pressed and molded glass.

The object of the invention is to provide a candle lamp of simple structure and ornamental appearance, which is so organized that the flame of the candle is protected against drafts, is so supplied with air as to promotev to best advantage illuminative combustion of the candle, and is so organized as to intensify the illumination which combustion of the candle produces.

It is further an object of the invention to provide a candle lamp, having the advantages above noted, which is so organized that the structure of the lamp does not have any openings through which wax, or candle grease, may escape.

The objects of my invention are effected by so constructing and organizing the base of the candle lamp that a lamp chimney, such as a chimney of the sort commonly used for kerosene lamps, is engaged on the base to surround a candle socket therein, and by leading into the interior of such lamp chimney combustion air for the candle by channels arranged exteriorly of the base in a position in which candle grease or wax cannot escape through them.

It should be emphasized that extreme simplicity and attractive appearance are features of my candle lamp, and in it I have coupled them with effective illumination and with a generally satisfactory structural arrangement.

In the accompanying drawing Fig. I is an elevational view of a candle lamp made in accordance with my invention, the chimney forming a part of the assembly structure of the lamp being broken away in its lower region. Fig. II is a horizontal sectional view through the assembly of the candle lamp taken in the plane of section line II-II of Fig. I. Fig. III is a vertical sectional View through the lamp stand or base and through a fragmentary portion of the lamp chimney taken on the section line III-III of Fig. II.

In the drawing, reference numeral I represents generally a candle stand, having thereon a handle 2. The base of the stand is formed of a skirt 3 outwardly and. downwardly extended from a centrally placed cylindrical body 4, having therein a grease cup 5, and a candle socket 5 downwardly extended therefrom.

A lamp chimney I is mounted and held in position on the base, or stand of the lamp. In assembly the lamp chimney l is placed around the cylindrical body 4 with its lower edge resting on a shoulder 8 at the junction of the body and skirt 3. In this position it is yieldingly spaced from the body 4, and is held against accidental dislodgment from its mounted position, by yielding means carried by the cylindrical body 4 and bearing against the interior surface of the chimney 1.

As the yielding mounting meansfor the lamp chimney are so mounted as locally to occupy the entire interval between the surface of the cylindrical body 4 and the interior surface of the lamp chimney, it is important for my purpose that such mounting means be air permeable, so that air may pass through it, into the interior of the lamp chimney. This I do by using as yielding, air permeable chimney mounting means a light, tightly coiled, spring 9, seated in a groove l0 around the cylindrical body 4 of the candle stand partway of its height. Such coil spring is itself air permeable, and there are in the structure of the stand duets for introducing air from beneath the circular base of the lamp chimney I, and around the cylindrical body 4 of the candle stand, into the interior of the lamp chimney.

These air-supplying ducts are in the form of ornamental flutes, radially formed on the upper surface of the skirt 3, and providing channels ll extending from the peripheral edge of the skirt to the level of shoulder 8. In the zone of the shoulder 8 they interrupt and resolve the shoulder in one or more regions around the candle stand, so that at the upper end of the flutes the lamp chimney rests upon the edges I! of the flutes, rather than on the surface of the shoulder. In order that air introduced at the openings beneath the lower edge of the lamp chimney I may proceed upwardly into the combustion region of the chimney, communicatin flutes l3 extend vertically of the cylindrical body 4, and at their lower ends merge with the flutes in the skirt of the stand. They thus provide channels l4, leading from the openings at which the edge of the lamp chimney rests on the edges of the lower flutes to a level above the seating groove for the coil spring 9.

By the described arrangement, combustion air for the candle enters the interior of the lamp chimney above the cylindrical body of the candle stand, by way of a plurality of direct channels. Also, these channels are provided in a way to improve rather than to detract from the ornamental appearance of the candle lamp, since their functional effect is obtained by a surface formation of the candle stand which may be symmetrical with its general contour, and consistent with the ornamental conformation of its surface. The yielding, air permeable, chimney mounting means which takes the form of the coil spring 9, effectively engages the lamp chimney in its mounted position on the base or candle stand of the lamp, without inhibiting the entry of combustion air into the chimney.

Merely by using a coil spring of such diameter and resiliency that its turns exert a yielding force both on the cylindrical body of the candle stand and on the lamp chimney, a firm engagement of the lamp chimney in its mounted position is assured. It is desirable to use a coil spring the metal of which has such strength and elasticity, and which initially is coiled so tightly that when its turns shift their position by the pressure of the opposed surfaces of the cylindrical candleholding body of the lamp stand and the lamp chimney, the coils individually have sufficient resilient strength securely to hold the chimney.

It is to be understood that various elements equivalent to those specifically herein disclosed may be substituted therefor without departing from the spirit of my invention, as defined in the appended claims.

I claim as my invention:

1. In a candle lamp the combination of a candle stand comprising a cylindrical candle-holding body and a skirt forming at their junction a seat for a lamp chimney, a lamp chimney surrounding the said cylindrical candle-holding body, a resilient air-permeable member yieldingly interengaging the said cylindrical body and the lamp chimney, and channels in the surface structure of the said cylindrical body member vertically extended below the seating level of the lamp chimney, to provide an air passage into the space between said cylindrical candle-holding body and the chimney and through the said resilient airpermeable member into the combustion region of the chimney above the said candle-holding body.

2. A candle lamp in accordance with the definition of claim 1 in which the resilient air-permeable interengaging member is a coil spring.

3. In a candle lamp the combination of a candle stand comprising a cylindrical candle-holding body and a skirt forming at their junction a seat for a lamp chimney, a lamp chimney having a base closely surrounding the said candle-holding body, a resilient air-permeable member mounted on the said candle-holding body yielding-1y interengaging the candle-holding body and the base of the lamp chimney, and channels between the said candle-holding body and the said lamp chimney provided by the cross-sectional contour of the said candle-holding body and extended below the seating level of the lamp chimney, to provide air passage into the space between the said candleholding body and chimney and through the said air-permeable member into the combustion region of the chimney above the said candle-holding body.

4. A candle lamp in accordance with the definition of claim 3 in which the resilient air-permeable interengaging member is a coil spring.

HUGH S. BRADY. 

